Re: Problem with Cups/Xsane printer - Fixed

2006-06-27 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups: The following Cups commands lp -d br printtest.txt and lpr -P br printtest.txt work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 laser

Gimp: No Printer in File Menu

2006-06-27 Thread Thomas H. George
Gimp 2.2 has forgotten that I have a printer. Actually I have two both defined in Cups and working from a console, from Xsane and from Openoffice. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 11:59:52PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Try dexconf. A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf to work with my Wacom tablet. When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused problems

Problem with Cups/Xsane printer settings

2006-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups: The following Cups commands lp -d br printtest.txt and lpr -P br printtest.txt work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 laser printer on the lan attached to a Sarge box. The lp command reports a job number,

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-24 Thread Thomas H. George
Try dexconf. A couple of weeks ago I had trouble configuring xorg.conf to work with my Wacom tablet. When my manual edits of xorg.conf caused problems, dexconf wiped out the file and replaced it with a pure vanilla version. Eventually I found successful manual edits to make the Wacom tablet

Wacom Mouse Saga Continued

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the following output from xidump -l: Configured Mouse disabled Generic Keyboard keyboard stylus extension eraser

Re: Wacom Mouse Saga - Yahoo! Thanks

2006-06-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:33:15PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi, it seems that my wacom graphire4 works fine with both mouse and stylus on etch/xorg7/i386. I continue to experiment trying to get the mouse on my Wacom Graphire4 tablet to work. After my latest edit of xorg.conf I get the

No Images in Mozilla

2006-06-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Just little broken icons where the pictures ought to be. I am completely baffled. I have purged and reinstalled mozilla. I have purged and reinstalled mozilla-mplayer. I have downloaded and installed Java Plugin 1.5.0_07-b03 replacing an earlier version. I have downloaded and installed

Re: No Images in Mozilla - WOW!

2006-06-13 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 04:09:50PM +0200, Lothar Braun wrote: On Tuesday 13 June 2006 15:44, Thomas H. George wrote: Just little broken icons where the pictures ought to be. Check Edit-Preferences - Privacy and Security - Images and turn the Image acceptance policy to Accept images

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and xorg.conf

2006-06-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 09:10:57AM +0300, Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: hi all after X upgrade (etch 7.0.20) dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg doesn't change xorg.conf. Any ideas why? -- Artem Zolochevskiy I learned from an earlier posting to run dexconf. I have been experimenting with editing

Mozilla-mplayer Problem

2006-06-11 Thread Thomas H. George
Mozilla can no longer display Windows media. Tried reinstalling mozilla and reinstalling mozilla-mplayer but it did not help. Mozilla reports mplayer-in 3.21 enabled for Windows Media as well as for Quicktime, RealPlayer and Google VLC multimedia. Still no images but sound - a stream from a

Images Videos Missing in Mozilla

2006-06-10 Thread Thomas H. George
Suddenly Mozilla will no longer display pictures and the weather video map. I have Java, Shockwave Flash, RealPlayer, QuickTime and several versions of mplayer one of which says it is a Windows Media Player Pluging. Mozilla reports all of these as enabled. Has anyone encountered this problem

Re: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg fails

2006-06-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:03:17PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:00:32PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: ?ann 2006-06-09, 08:57:21 (-0400) skrifa?i [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg which complains xserver-xorg postint warning:

Wacom Mouse Problem Still Unsolved

2006-06-08 Thread Thomas H. George
xorg and xserver-xorg-input-wacom successfully installed but the wacom mouse problem is unresolved. The wacom stylus will move the cursor and the buttons and scroll wheel on the pad work though the stylus often activates a feature when just passing over it and the buttons on the pad must be

/usr/X11R6/lib softlinks lost

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas H. George
In the xorg update there was an advice to save the files in /usr/X11R6 so the bin directory could be replaced with a softlink to /usr/bin. Once this had been done the programs that were in usr/X11R6/bin could be moved to /usr/bin and the other files directories could be moved back to /usr/X11R6.

Re: /usr/X11R6/lib softlinks lost - Thanks

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:29:19AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:26:51 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the xorg update there was an advice to save the files in /usr/X11R6 so the bin directory could be replaced with a softlink to /usr/bin. Once

Re: xdm/gdm failure after dist-upgrade

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:16:09PM -0700, Derek wrote: Try running dexconf first,then dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg.That should do it No, dexconf - whatever it is - had no effect. There is no man page, dpkg and apt-cache search know nothing about it but it is in /usr/bin so I just entered the

Re: X applications won't run after xorg upgrade

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 12:40:03AM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm on testing, after an upgrade for xorg and all xserver dependencies some applications such as rdesktop/Xnest/ppracer don't seem to work anymore. i made sure that all dependencies are well installed, it turned out

xdm/gdm failure after dist-upgrade

2006-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
My box is testing with a 2.6.15 kernel complied from linux-source-2.6.15. After the dist-upgrade this morning (Monday, June 5) X Windows failed to start with the message no keyboard module found. I ran dpkg-configure xserver-xorg. This did not help. I replaced /etc/X11/xorg.conf with a pre

Shutdown Stalls at rsync

2006-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Ran dist-upgrade this morning, Monday June 5. Now shutdown stalls at rsync. I wanted to shutdown to try my old 2.6.11 kernel as - described in a separate posting - X Windows wont start, gdm can't find keyboard module. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: xdm/gdm failure after dist-upgrade

2006-06-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 05:57:50PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:03:22 -0400 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My box is testing with a 2.6.15 kernel complied from linux-source-2.6.15. After the dist-upgrade this morning (Monday, June 5) X Windows failed

Wacom Mouse - Still Baffled.

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've ever had. After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. I found and installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom.

Re: debian testing xorg fails on /dev/input/mice

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:21:39PM +0200, Jon Jahren wrote: Hi all I've just installed debian etch on my main computer, but I get an error when trying to start X, it tells me: (EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such file or directory (EE) Configured Mouse:

Re: Wacom Mouse - Footnote

2006-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 11:24:26AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've ever had. After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons

Re: X-Windows Problems - Solved

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 01:20:17AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 10:20:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: [...] That all sounds like there are some configuration problems in your system. Maybe you

Testing/Wacom/Mouse Problem

2006-05-28 Thread Thomas H. George
The Wacom Graphire4 mouse worked perfectly with Sarge - best mouse I've ever had. After upgrading to Testing I have this strange set of affairs: The stylus will move the cursor, the mouse will not but the mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. I found and installed xserver-xorg-input-wacom.

Re: X-Windows Problems - Puzzled

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:34:45PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41

Re: X-Windows Problems, xorgcfg error

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
The thread is tangled because some of my previous posting have not shown up as yet. Continuing to try to get the Wacom mouse to work, ran xorgcfg. The program runs but with output to stderror Failed to initialize module list. strace xorgcfg shows it is looking in

Re: X-Windows Problems - Wacom

2006-05-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Tangled thread; one of yesterday's postings just showed up. A later posting reported editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf as per linuxwacom.sf.net manual. I now have the following situation: The stylus moves the cursor, the mouse does not. The mouse buttons and scroll wheel work. Tom George -- To

Re: X-Windows Problems - Progress

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to get gdm to start

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 03:09:39PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 14:04:57 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am stumbling through the move

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 16:41:09 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and must restart gdm

Re: X-Windows Problems

2006-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:30:43AM +, s. keeling wrote: Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed There are reasons why Sarge is called stable. Stay with Sarge/stable. Testing is meant for those who *know* Debian well

X-Windows Problems

2006-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
I am stumbling through the move from Sarge to testing. I have managed to get gdm to start but if I switch to a console I lose the window and must restart gdm. Equally frustrating, my Wacom tablet mouse is not recognized though it worked perfectly in Sarge and the wacom module is installed.

Re: X Windows Fonts with Symbols? - Thanks

2006-03-30 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:12:42PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:50:10PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I would like to write some text which includes the symbols for Spades, Hearts, Diamonds and Clubs. I know that some years ago I had a word processor with fonts

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:35:10PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: [...] A search of the Debian packages for linux-source finds nothing. Tom George What are the entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list? I have deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ testing main

Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which I downloaded from Testing last year. What has changed? Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Where are the kernel sources?

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:31:43AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: I just searched the Debian packages list and found no kernel sources beyond 2.6.8. I'm using a kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11 which I downloaded from Testing last year. What has changed

cdparanoia hangs

2006-02-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Given the command to rip a track - e.g. cdparanoia 3 - the program starts to rip the track, then hangs with a message: ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdc: ATAPI reset complete This repeats until I use top to find paranoia's PID and kill the program. After this if I restart the program

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-02-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 05:17:06PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 01:54:31PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: } ... I have the instructions to do this in a } file but I have forgotten the vim command to attach it to this message. } I'll re-post it if anyone needs it. }

Re: Having problem with Exim4 / Authenticate and Relay

2006-02-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:45:44PM -0500, Christopher Molnar wrote: I am having a problem with allowing relay access to any authenticated user. I have added the Accept Authenticated * line into the config. Authenticated users are still being denied relay access with an error 550 . I

Re: g++ problem - Thanks

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks - I was just out of date. It works now. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-02-09 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:53:35AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2006-01-13 17:04:23 +0100, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: I also find exim difficult to configure. Under Debian, there's almost nothing to do! Just answer a few questions. That's great if

g++ problem

2006-02-08 Thread Thomas H. George
As a occasional programmer I tried to recompile an old program I intended to expand. Although #include iostream was entered before the start of main the g++ compiler did not recognize cin and cout. This seems so elementary it certainly shouldn't have changed and it certainly worked before

Re: khubd timed out - Solved

2006-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:55:42AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I have two boxes - both Sarge but with a 2.6.11 kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11_2.6.11.orig.tar.gz which I downloaded from testing last summer. One box accepts usb devices (usb storage, Wacom tablet) with no problem

khubd timed out

2006-02-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two boxes - both Sarge but with a 2.6.11 kernel built from kernel-source-2.6.11_2.6.11.orig.tar.gz which I downloaded from testing last summer. One box accepts usb devices (usb storage, Wacom tablet) with no problem the other does not reporting a series of khubd timed out ... messages.

Reconfiguring xserver-xfree86 Doesn't Work

2006-02-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I installed a new apg video card and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86. At first gdm exited with no display fournd. I deleted XF86Config-4 from /etc/X11 and tried again. This time I got a display but with only 640x480 resolution. I deleted every XF86Config file in the system and tried

Mutt Exim4 Setup Problem Solved

2006-01-18 Thread Thomas H. George
On the 9th Sridar M. A. wrote (in a message I printed out but erased): The passwd_client seems to be Debian specific but it did not work. I edited /etc/exim4/conf.d/30_exim4-config_examples to include the login id and password. Just including below the relevant section: plain: driver =

Exim: Retry time not reached for any host

2006-01-14 Thread Thomas H. George
FAQ A0608 in exim4-doc-html says this is not an error but this is all I get. I have three days of test messages to my other mailbox in the queue and every transmission results in this message. With Mozilla I can send messages in either direction between my two mailboxes with no difficulty.

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
CaT wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 05:07:56PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. It should just work[tm]. What error messages are you getting from mutt

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-13 Thread Thomas H. George
Jacob S wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:02:33 -0500 Thomas H. George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My system is Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel. We have a Verizon DSL connection. I can send and receive email with Mozilla and receive mail with fetchmail

Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

2006-01-12 Thread Thomas H. George
I have spent a couple of days trying to configure Exim4 so as to be able to respond to postings from Mutt but without success. All this time Mozilla has posted my items to the list with no difficulties and I find Mozilla will thread the downloads from the list by subject. I have not yet

Re: Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right

2006-01-09 Thread Thomas H. George
It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a Verizion DSL connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as outgoing .verizon.net and send messages back and forth between the two mailboxes. Normally I download the

Can't Get Exim4 Setup Right

2006-01-08 Thread Thomas H. George
It seems simple but it doesn't work. I have two mailboxes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a Verizion DSL connection. With Mozilla I can set the outgoing smtp connection as outgoing .verizon.net and send messages back and forth between the two mailboxes. Normally I download the

Where are GTK devel packages?

2006-01-02 Thread Thomas H. George
I am trying to run fakeroot debian/rules binary to install mplayer. The program aborts with the message, the GUI requires GTK devel packages (which were not found) My setup is Sarge with XWindows started with gdm but I probably do not have the whole Gnome package installed as I normally use

How to send mail from Mutt?

2005-12-17 Thread Thomas H. George
I used to be able to send mail from Mutt but I got a new email address and it no longer works. In Mozilla mail preferences I have set use outgoing.verizon.net for outgoing SMTP but I found nothing regarding such a setting in muttrc. Or perhaps, if it is there, I don't understand the entry.

Amusing pdf print puzzle

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas H. George
From a website I selected a financial document which Mozilla opened with xpdf. The screen display was perfect but it could not be printed, that is, the file was apparently sent to the printer but nothing happened. Using lynx localhost:631 Manage Jobs I found the job listed as completed but

A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. With a little searching I found the logrotate command and realized these files were being rotated. In /var/log I found a large (approximately 1 Gbyte) syslog file plus an equally

Re: pppoeconf and verizon dsl

2005-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:48:14AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:50:47PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Jude DaShiell writes: [pppoeconf and verizon dsl} don't work together... Why not file a bug report explaining exactly what goes wrong so that the developer

Re: pppoeconf and verizon dsl

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:50:47PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Jude DaShiell writes: [pppoeconf and verizon dsl} don't work together... Why not file a bug report explaining exactly what goes wrong so that the developer can fix it? -- John Hasler I have no problem with pppoeconf and

Faster CPU, Can't Join LAN

2005-08-08 Thread Thomas H. George
Could the problem be a timing issue? I replaced the cpu and booted from the same hard drive (Sarge, kernel-2.6.8 compiled from source). Wlan comes up as before, wavemon shows a strong signal but there is no connection to the LAN. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 09:07:50AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which

QM_MODULES - How can I implement them?

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas H. George
I am running Sarge with a 2.6.8 kernel compiled from the Debian source. When I enter lsmod I get a response QM_Modules function not implemented. The kernel was compiled with full support for modules. Apropos knows nothing of QM_Modules function. What is it and how do I implement it? Tom

Re: QM_MODULES - How can I implement them?

2005-07-28 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:33:00PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:48:04PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am running Sarge with a 2.6.8 kernel compiled from the Debian source. When I enter lsmod I get a response QM_Modules function not implemented

Re: Numlock at startup?

2005-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 03:33:49PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: Ron Johnson wrote (Thursday 21 July 2005 9:57 pm): For next time OP has a question like this: $ apt-cache search numlock gkrellm-leds - Keyboard LED monitor for GKrellM numlockx - enable NumLock in X11 sessions

Re: Debian and wireless network cards

2005-07-23 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:06:17PM -0400, Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, I was asked by a friend to install Debian on his system. He asked me about which wireless network cards Debian supports. Can anybody tell me which ones (I personally don't use a wireless network so I wouldn't know). I

Wireless PCI Cards - Which Work?

2005-07-15 Thread Thomas H. George
Actually I know my Netgear MA311 works but we just moved to a new house and the little antenna for the card was lost. I purchased a Netgear WG31l ($50) and Sarge with a 2.6.11 kernel didn't recognize it. The antenna fit the old MA311 card so I am out $50 but back on line. (I had expected

Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer) which I find is in the oldstable distribution but not in Sarge. Does this mean I should search for an alternate package? Is there a good one? I

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:58:56AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer) which I find

Are /var/cache/apt/archive files essential?

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Suddenly I have used up all 9 Gbytes of the /var partition. I eliminated some of the gzipped log files but that didn't help much. For the moment I moved all of the /var/cache/apt/archive files - about 3 Gbytes - to another partition. The system is still working but I don't know how much

Re: Posted Three Times - Thanks

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: Le mercredi 01 juin 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz a écrit : Thomas H. George: The problem: Every time I must shut down the system it locks up when it tries to disconnect my Sony USB dvdrw drive

Re: Posted Three Times - Thanks

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:32:49PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:41:13AM +0200, Aurélien Campéas wrote: Le mercredi 01 juin 2005 à 23:21 +0200, Jochen Schulz a écrit : Thomas H. George: The problem: Every time I must shut down the system it locks up when

Re: Are archive files essential? - Thanks

2005-06-03 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:18:42PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I note that there are multiple entries for most of the packages in the archive with dates going back two or three years. Perhaps it would have been better

Posted Three Times - No Responses

2005-06-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I have always received great help from this list in the past but I have had no responses at all to my current problem. Perhaps hundreds of people have looked at the postings but had no ideas as to how to solve the problem. Perhaps everyone is too busy getting ready for the release of Sarge.

Oops when Sony USB dvdrw is disconnected

2005-05-31 Thread Thomas H. George
Only my Sony DRX-510UL USB dvdrw drive is a problem. I am using hotplug and can disconnect and reconnect jumpdrives and other USB devices with no problems. If I shutdown the system or disconnect the Sony drive I get the following messages: SCSI: Device offlined - not ready after error

OT Required Options?

2005-05-27 Thread Thomas H. George
For my birthday my daughter gave me a tee shirt with the following message printed on it: Only in the World of Microsoft are Options Required Go Linux! I don't want to wear it until I can explain it and I don't know what

kernel-2.6.8 USB problem

2005-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
On shutdown the system locks up when it tries to disconnect the Sony DRX-510UL USB dvdrw drive. This lockup did not occur when discovery was installed but with discovery installed the drive was reported in /proc/bus/usb/devices but with no mount point. A posting on the list suggested

Re: Can't burn CDs since kernel 2.6.7 - am I the only one?

2005-05-20 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, May 20, 2005 at 04:28:22AM +0200, Vincent Panel wrote: I'm not part of the debian-user list, and found this (old) thread on the web archive. I have exactly the same problem than Alan Chandler : I can't burn unless I switch to 2.4 kernel (I own a CW078D CD-R/RW drive). But I noticed

USB dvdrw mount point Woes

2005-05-17 Thread Thomas H. George
Object: Use Sony DRX-510DRl usb dvdrw with cdparanoia and cdrecord to rip cd tracks and write data and audio cd's. Box is Testing with kernel compiled from Debian kernel-source-2.6.8. Initially less /proc/bus/usb/devices showed device details but cdparanoia and cdrecord cannot find it and

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX Disappears! - Why?

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas H. George
I have learned that I cannot enable DNA unless my 2.6.8 kernel is compiled with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX selected but the option to make this selection has disappeared in make menuconfig. This happened once before and, when I learned what was missing, I found a backup version of .config which

realtime installation solved

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas H. George
This may not be the best solution but it worked. After getting and unpacking realtime-lsm-source I followed the directions in the INSTALL file exactly including setting KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8. modprobe realtime gid=29 fails. then rmmod capability followed by modprobe

realtime - Had it again, Lost it again

2005-05-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I have recompiled my 2.6.8 kernel numerous times in the last three days seeking a configuration allowing use of a USB dvdrw device. In the process I lost realtime. I believe there are at least three ways to install the realtime module: unpack realtime-lsm.tar.bz2 and follow the instructions

No /dev/scd?, No access to USB dvdrw

2005-05-13 Thread Thomas H. George
With kernel 2.4.26 my Sony USB dvdrw drive is at /dev/sr1. With kernel 2.6.8 there is no /dev/sr1 and the drive is not accessable although lsusb knows the device is there. cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV -v scd reports creating scd? devices with symlinks to them from sr? but after this is run ls /dev does

Re: /dev? for USB dvdrw drive?

2005-05-12 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 03:38:35PM +0200, z.a.kaleta wrote: Dnia ??roda, 11 maja 2005 22:07, Thomas H. George napisa??: The emulation of scsi in 2.6 kernels exist. The problem with usb devices is that in kernel config normaly used is wrong. The position CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB has to be put in n

/dev? for USB dvdrw drive?

2005-05-11 Thread Thomas H. George
On my backup 2.4.26 kernel the mount point for my Sony dvdrw drive is /dev/sr1. When I boot to my 2.6.8 kernel /dev/sr1 does not exist. The drive is recognized by lsusb but this just gives the bus # and device #. This must be because scsi emulation is on for the 2.4.26 kernel but not for the

realtime no longer installs

2005-05-11 Thread Thomas H. George
Last week I managed - with several false starts - to install the realtime module and for the past few days I have been able to run jackd --realtime -d alsa -r 44100 with no problems. Today, working on a totally unrelated issue, I re-compiled a 2.6.8 bzImage without changing the security

Audio CD Burning Perplexities

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas H. George
I have on the hard drive 20 wav files (Signed 16 Bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo). I did succeed burning them one at a time to a cd with the command cdrecord -v dev=ATA:1,1,0 -tao -pad -nofix filename.wav with the -nofix option removed for the last track. The resulting cd plays

jackd mlock error

2005-05-05 Thread Thomas H. George
Yesterday I could run jackd --realtime -d alsa -r 44100 as a regurlar user. This morning I ran a dist-upgrade that included an upgrade of realtime-lsm. Now the jackd command aborts with a message: unable to mlock() port buffers: Operation not permitted. I can still run jackd as root but then

Re: jackd mlock error - solved

2005-05-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 11:29:08AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Yesterday I could run jackd --realtime -d alsa -r 44100 as a regurlar user. This morning I ran a dist-upgrade that included an upgrade of realtime-lsm. Now the jackd command aborts with a message: unable to mlock() port

Re: Problem Setting DMA

2005-05-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 08:15:51PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Saturday, 30.04.2005 at 11:27 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 10:26:49PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: On Friday, 29.04.2005 at 22:24 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Thomas H. George wrote

Re: Need Camcorder Firewire Help - Thanks

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks for the suggestions which solved my problems. I installed gscanbus and when it aborted, I ran strace gscanbus which showed the problem was a failure to open /dev/raw1394. A check showed this file was owned by root and disk but with only 660 permissions. I changed the permissions to 666

Need Camcorder Firewire Help

2004-12-31 Thread Thomas H. George
I have a Sony DCR-TRV525 Digital Video Carmera with a Firewire (i.Link) output. I have installed an AVerMedia DVD EZMaker 1394 PCI card (#33 in CARDLIST.saa7134), compiled a Debian 2.6.8 kernel with Firewire support with the raw1394 module and video4linux with the saa7134 module. I have tried

Re: 2-D Drawing Programs ? - Thanks

2004-12-16 Thread Thomas H. George
xfig does exactly what I want and is fully documented. I don't know how I overlooked this program when I searched the Debian packages. Tom George -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2-D Drawing Programs ?

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas H. George
I am looking for a 2-D drawing program which includes the ability to select an object, display its dimensions and anchor point and edit these values from the keyboard. I have tried several and tgif comes the closest with an option to peek at these values but I have not found a way to edit

Operating system does not support locale ???

2004-12-08 Thread Thomas H. George
When I start oopadmin it first writes Operating system does not support locale to the terminal and then starts. My operating system is kernel-2.4.27 compiled from tha latest kernel-source-2.4.27 release. I paged through make menuconfig again and can't see anything regarding locale. For the

Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration

2004-12-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +, Chris Halls wrote: On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If, instead, I comment out export

How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list of locale programs including setlocale. The man page for setlocale specifies the header to use in a C

OOo Printer Setup Frustration

2004-12-01 Thread Thomas H. George
I have two boxes both using a kernel completed from kernel-source-2.4.26 and both using CUPS and openoffice.org. Both have the latest dist-upgrade from testing. On both I have edited /etc/openoffice/openoffice.conf and have enabled export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1. One box finds its attached printer,

Re: Openoffice Problem ID'd, Not Solved

2004-11-26 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 02:03:09PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: The latest testing dist-upgrade of openoffice.org (1.1.2) will not print newly created documents. Documents created before the dist-upgrade continue to print with no problems. Tom George In printer settings, paper

Re: Openoffice printer problem - A Bug?

2004-11-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:43:45PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Since the local printer is installed and is working correctly I hesitate to delete and reinstall it. It would seem best to remove the printer from Openoffice and reinstall it there but I don't see how

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